苏州状元谶背后的环境变迁

自宋代以来,苏州地区长期流传着"潮过夷亭出状元"的谶语,并且屡有应验。这一文化现象虽是地域文化发展的结果,但也有着深刻的环境变迁背景,它较为精确地反映了娄江水利形势的历史变迁。在文献丰富的江南地区,类似材料亦不少见,显然,深入发掘、利用此类文献材料,将有利于历史环境变迁的研究。     

商周管邑地望考略

本文结合考古资料、古文字和传世文献,考证西周和春秋时期的管已在郑州西北郊一带,商代晚期的管邑也应在郑州西北郊一带,郑州战国城是战国管邑,而郑州商城是早商时期的管邑。郑州商城是商汤灭夏以后建立的都城,称管亳,可以简称亳。     

近十年来国内郭店楚简《太一生水》研究述评

《太一生水》自面世以来就引起学界的广泛关注。近十年来国内学者对该文本的研究主要集中在以下几个方面:(一)文本的作者、时代和学派属性;(二)对太一、神明等重要哲学概念的诠释;(三)水在宇宙生成中的地位和作用;(四)宇宙生成图式的描绘;(五)该文本与《老子》的关系;(六)该文本性质是宗教神话论还是自然哲学说。目前的研究既取得很大成绩,也出现不少谬误。而在今后的工作中,探索文本的思想主旨以及从天道环周论来探讨《太一生水》和帛书《黄帝四经》之间的关联是我们研究《太一生水》的新课题。     

偃师商城小城的建筑年代与性质

偃师商城小城建筑年代为南关外期偏晚,这一年代非早商而属先商晚期即夏末。该城是商汤灭夏之时兴建的军事营垒,非早商都城。     

桂林七星岩摩崖题刻渗水通道瑞雷波探测

为探明桂林七星岩景区摩崖题刻文物所赋存的山体里断裂带及岩溶洞穴等渗水通道的发育情况,采用考虑道间时差相位的多道瞬态瑞雷波探测方法,结合工程地质勘察资料,揭示了山体里对摩崖题刻产生溶蚀病害的断裂带及岩溶裂隙等渗流通道的空间位置和规模,为石刻文物注浆保护方案的制定提供了科学依据,也为瑞雷波方法在相关工程的应用提供了经验和借鉴。     

Ancient DNA Clarifies Osteological Analyses of Commingled Remains from Midnight Terror Cave,Belize

In the past two decades, paleogenetics has made a significant impact on the field of archaeology. Interestingly, paleogenetic methods have not been extensively employed in osteoarchaeology despite its ability to address issues that cannot be resolved through traditional osteological analysis alone. This paper tackles a problem concerning the relationship between human remains in a commingled deposit from Midnight Terror Cave, Belize. Paleogenetics demonstrates that the bones in question belonged to multiple individuals, thus resolving an issue that was at the heart of the interpretation of social processes at the site. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Subadult Age at Death and Health Status at Niah Cave,Borneo (1500–200 bc)

Southeast Asia's transition to rice agriculture is often used as an exception to the general pattern of health decline at the agricultural transition. Niah Cave is the largest known Southeast Asian Neolithic cemetery, providing valuable information about subadult health during the agricultural transition in this region. This study examines the health status and mortuary treatment of subadult skeletal remains (Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI) = 49) from the Neolithic cemetery of Niah Cave, Sarawak, Malaysia (1500–200 bc ). This study found that few cases of cribra orbitalia (4.6%) and porotic hyperostosis (14%). However, nonspecific infections may have been a risk factor for subadults as over half (65%) died with active cases of periosteal reactions on their long bones. Differential diagnosis determined that possible factors for this include parasite load, rickets and scurvy. Mortuary practices indicate that subadults may have been treated differently in phases 1 and 2 but were grated similar mortuary treatment in phases 3 and 4. This study suggests that changes in mobility patterns may have placed subadults at risk for increased parasite load and vitamin deficiency, while the role of subadults within the community may have changed over time. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Ontological security and the limits to a common world: subaltern pasts and the inner-worldliness of the Tablighi Jama’at

ABSTRACT

In this article, the often conflictual intersection between transnational dimensions of religious social formations and narratives of global governance and national security is interrogated. Concretely, the article examines how the relation, between the transnational activities and commonalities actuated by the Islamic revivalist movement Tablighi Jama’at and the perception that it hosts and nourishes extremist elements, both activates and makes manifest efforts at attaining ontological security. At the heart of the analysis is hence the question of where to locate the limits to the common world as it finds embodiment in contemporary expressions of global governance and transnationalism. By critically engaging the possibility of incorporating the many voices of being human into a singular and all-encompassing framework of human existence, the article moreover builds and expands on Dipesh Chakrabarty’s theorising of ‘subaltern pasts’ and relates it to the seeming need of selfhood to strive towards wholeness, that is, for subjectivity to be securitised. It is, as a consequence, suggested that the identity formation that emerges through Tablighi Jama’at’s comportment, and the controversies that surround it, must be understood as a manifestation of the limits to what narratives of globality might accommodate. By claiming this, the article confirms and furthers extant reasoning on the incomplete and fractured relation between the possibility of a common world and the intrinsic silence of the subaltern within the realms of the international and the global.     

Revisiting Qumran Cave 1Q and its Archaeological Assemblage

Qumran Cave 1Q was the first site of Dead Sea scroll discoveries. Found and partly emptied by local Bedouin, the cave was excavated officially in 1949 and published in the series Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (Volume 1) in 1955. Contents of the cave are found in collections worldwide, and in different institutions in Jerusalem and Amman. While the scrolls are the most highly prized artefacts from this cave, in archaeological terms they are part of an assemblage that needs to be understood holistically in order to make conclusions about its character and dating. This study presents all of the known items retrieved from the cave, including those that are currently lost, in order to consider what we might know about the cave prior to its emptying and the changes to its form. It constitutes preliminary work done as part of the Leverhulme funded International Network for the Study of Dispersed Qumran Caves Artefacts and Archival Sources [IN-2015-067].